Answers to Strategist quiz 641

Answers to Strategist quiz 641

1 What is the term used to describe software that is no longer produced or supported by the company that originally made it?  
Abandonware

2 Who said, “Luck is not a business model”?
Anthony Bourdain

3 Which company publishes a weekly magazine for its employees called The Arabian Sun?

Saudi Aramco

4 In the mid-1980s, a cellular call the wife of an employee of Motorola could not make from a remote place called Green Turtle in the Bahamas to her US hometown to close a business deal lead to the formation of which company? 
Iridium, the satellite mobile phone company, 11 years later in 1996

5 Identify this metal which was synthesised in 1823 by Jakob Berzelius in its pure form. Its melting and boiling points are one thousand four hundred and fourteen degrees Celsius and three thousand two hundred and sixty-five degrees Celsius respectively. Name it. 

Silicon

6 The need of a St. Louis glass blower named James McKelvey who makes hand crafted high-end faucets and fittings gave birth to which company? 

Square, co-founded by him and Jack Dorsey

7 A Sanskrit treatise of the 11th century included a chapter on automata or construction of mechanical contrivances, including mechanical bees, birds’ fountains shaped like humans etc. Like today’s robots. Name it and the Malwa king who authored the same.

Samaranganasutradhara by Raja Bhoja or Raja Bhojadeva Indian king from the Paramara dynasty. His kingdom was centered around the Malwa region in central Indi

8 The US Highway 66 in Oklahoma and achieving a speed limit of 66 mph during a test on this highway gave a Fortune 500 company its name. Name it.

Phillips 66

9 Who is running a radio programme called “Hawa tight Hai”€ to highlight concerns on pollution?  

Big FM

10 Connect the two images and arrive at a global brand’s name. 
Zara that was founded in the Spanish city of La Corunna was originally named Zorba by its founder Ortega and then when he found a bar near by carrying the same name he changed it to Zara

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There were 17 correct entries to Quiz number 641. The winner is Ajit Kumar Shrivastava from Bhopal